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ID number: BIRBI-B5764 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Manouel I; Constantinople Denomination: Tetarteron Noummion Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1143-1180 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 3.44 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3523. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand; pellet in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Bust of emperor, beardless, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: MANȣ ΗΛ ΔЄC (Manouel, despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.14a.2
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